The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1887-07-01

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dis surroundings are anythiI
i out eSthelically adorned sciSso
ANA exchanges lie in neiehbor
:, Juxt0poSltiou on his dusty DIES
r. aud Webste:'s Unabridged che.
by lowl With last years Coanessio
Records.
Light, which scientists asseI
2 travels at millions of miles A mimi,
: COMES speedily down 10 his otie
windows daily, but the grimy slas
ietctles 1t up al short notice and aC
m!ts 1t into the composing roou
utterly subdned. Here weekly b
lauuches forth columns of such yer
Dose length that he seems. will
every Issue, To have exhausted hi,
vocabulary and have nothing |,
LOOK forward to but "A future OF yer
ohl Insolvency, if o actual ruin
writes articles 10 tue first person
plural as II he possessed The power
OF attorney for his entire parish.
aud editorials which are moral mus
tard plaster, or else seem 10 have
olossomed out OF his inner cOu.
Selousless as a flower trom its calyx,
10 this same saRetum come the
many baruacles of an editorial ship.
whom he cares about AS much tor
as a South Sea Islander, but whom
lie must greet with rapturous efu.
sion and puff accordingly. There
fore, when sometimes he gets a
notice of himself ia contemporane.
u journals, he must he pardoued
II be republishes it, considering it
as so much wages due on account of
his faithful services to maukind.
We all say We look forward 10 onr
reward III Heaven, but re, never.
-heless, nightly pleased at an an
.lclpatory BONUS of commentator
Iere on earth.
Alone at night in the misty re.
;eSses of his Office, whose only
sounds emanate from some maraud.
ng rodent nlbbliug lis way through
be yellowlng back issues, or u pred.
tory roach samplIng the iutoxica.
Jug delights OF the paste pot, tue
.oahiry editor, with IA puuy Faber,
more towards building I'M a
onimuHIty than the actual labOrprs
heleln, those 'heweIs of wood and
OF water" upon whom The
redit falls; helps the cause OF re.
.Slon With every enuobliug article
ing on the copy h0Ok /; pleads Tor
malmed and halt, and uses his
eIcll as an intellectual bistouri.
yer seeking TO extiTpate moral les. /
1hs. His columns ale always omen
} the cry OF the oppressed, and he
ives annually thousands of free
hes which, it charged for, would
mount to rather a neat sum-if he z
ere ever able to collect it. As a
lght compensation for bis many
he Is blessed with a few priv.
not accorded other mOrtals. "
II some benign deity had presided q
tue bedside of We scribe when bis n
Oy lips first gave forth feeble
otest against being uShered into
Is world of woe aud due bills.
among these fairy gifts
s heretofore been the frpe.pasS
whereby he was enabled 10
IKE occasional )jaunts into uei.b. q,
mug States and iuhlct his sub
1berS the following week with
'queit reports, under glowing
idIlneS, descriptive of the trim,
", he must travel ION his sbaDp.s Y
interstate commerce bill having
Inhibited the O;her method. WI ,
.d "PaSs! so long, the govern. 4C
Nc haS ordered them all an. and q,
The long and short (hauD ofil.
%Another, aud a much appreciated Nv
f, Is his membership OF a State
Association, which affords
an annual holiday replete with us
'yment, during which he ce.
It's Old friendships, and forms
ones with men hitherto ONLY
through the medium of the an
range table. | need scarcely
how much pleasure he derives
these occasions, giving him -
over to Il good time generally, Ii
on his ''beSt bib aud tuck.
aud distributing broadcast VI
~ oramented cards, home print. '
With name and address. 1EGitor N
e BungtOocH Bugle,' inscribed II
con, as though the BaoIe was -
tx of daily from some ponder %"
elght.cyliudered invention, ~ :
'ad of eHanatiug from din.y new,
} rooms, testOoned with cob. fully
JOB proofs, second hand copy, AT
I1 color towels from which, like /,
bod, tue glory has departed. j
"a the editors wife-that mute.
Herring wOman-wbo sees her -
: room" Uttered with exchanges IA
ype-written circulars, aud who
IN "a chronic state of sweeping
Ubiquitous clippings; who
ny waits with accomplishing
nee her liege lords return from
nice, aud helps him to pOrr
pateut medicine aud garden
propositions, aud tie nGmer-
Their Improbable impedimeHta 81
editorial lock box ; may sue
her reward ia that other land Doc
z tue advertising agent ceases Ini
uble aud tue exchange tiend is
{.
N country editors! The butt n
w~itticisnIs, they fulfill P1tt,
1der mission than their self.
ed critics id moldiup or defer. Cor.